From the Associated Press: The Bush administration is reducing protections for endangered animals and plants. Just six weeks before Democratic President-elect Barack Obama takes office, the current Republican administration is changing endangered species regulations. Some mandatory, independent reviews that government scientists have performed for 35 years are being eliminated. The scientists’ advice from such reviews [ Read More ]
Birds and Beers is tonight at Merlin’s Rest at 6pm! We’ll have a raffle for some prizes courtesy of Woodlink.Birds and Beers is an informal gathering of birders of all abilities–if you’re interested in birds, you’re invited. You can meet other birders–maybe find a carpool buddy, ask about where to find target birds, share cool [ Read More ]
When it comes to gull id, I’ve always depended on the kindness of strangers to point out what birds are in the flock. I haven’t had a huge interest in them, they all looked the same and when someone would point out the differences they were seeing on a particular gull, I wasn’t seeing those [ Read More ]
NOTE: I swear this blog will not turn into one of those endless gull discussions, just a note on a minor breakthrough I had with my birding ability. I had a breakthrough in my gull watching ability at Black Dog Lake Power Plant yesterday! Number 1: I enjoyed doing it yesterday and number 2: I [ Read More ]
Wow, that was a title I never thought I would write. Playing around on Magnificent Frigatebird, I found some underwear that might be confusing if you were dating a non birder. I should mention that all of these are available as either boxers or thongs. First, in England, birders are called twitchers and instead of [ Read More ]
Holy Crap! I have found the best offering of bird shirts EVER. Check out these designs from Magnificent Frigate Bird (some of the shirts are even in girl sizes so we don’t look like a sack of potatoes, somebody finally listened): They have more, go check them out!
Another funny one from the folks at Birdorable. Note that there are several styles of shirt, bag, & hat you can get this on (and undies):
Well, well, well, ivory-billed woodpeckers are still in the news! If you’re not tempted to get one for the $50,000 reward, there’s a movie called Ghost Bird coming about the whole IBWO phenom. Here’s a trailer: Two things struck me about the trailer. Number one, the use of the song “Where Is My Mind.” I [ Read More ]
I was out at a meeting today and when Non Birding Bill picked me up he said, “We had a visitor while yo were away today. Then she showed me pictures on his iTouch of… …a Cooper’s hawk. I asked how he got the photos and he said he used my digiscoping equipment. Which is [ Read More ]
